venlafaxine

Andy, first, if you feel good on the medication, why do you want to stop? That's the trap of being on these types of medications. We feel so good after a while thinking we don't need to take them anymore. With that being said evaluate how you really feel and if weaning off venlafaxine is worth it. I did wean off in August to start Lexapro. I didn't want to but my generic brand of Venlafaxine was discontinued and substituted with a different generic that didn't work. I began having breakthrough anxiety after about 2 weeks on the second generic. I had to completely wean off before taking Lexapro to reduce my chances of having that seratonin syndrome .... So what I did was I took my regular dose every other day for about a week then I tried to stretch it to every 2 days. I would get dizzy spells and brain zaps in between so I would cut my regular dose in half whenever that happened. But I still continued stretching it out to 3 days then 4 days with half doses occasionally in between. All in all it took me two months to wean off. When it did start the Lexapro and was on it for 10 weeks I had an adverse reaction to it in that my anxiety got extremely worse and never let up. So I'm back on Effexor XR name brand. I feel like a better version of myself on it. So that's why I'm asking you to reevaluate your situation and decide if maybe cutting back to a lower dose would still be beneficial to. Good luck and let me know how you do!